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Dark Sky Films Unleashing ‘Night Drive’ & ‘Blood Conscious’ On DVD

Dark Sky Films is gearing to release two tales of terror on DVD this September, Night Drive and Blood Conscious. In Night Drive, “Russell (AJ Bowen – You’re Next, The Signal) is a driver in Los Angeles who’s reeling from a series of bad decisions. While his life seems to be caught in a downward spiral, a business proposition from an alluring but enigmatic passenger named Charlotte (Sophie Dalah – Unbroken, Dead Night) proves too good to turn down. A simple ride turns deadly, catapulting Russell into an even darker place, but Charlotte may be the key to a second chance he thought he’d never have… if he can make it through the night.” Bradford Baruh, the filmmaker that brought you John Dies at the End, directed Night Drive alongside Meghan Leon who penned the script. Blood Conscious, starring Nick Damici (“Hap and Leonard”, Dark Was the Night), centers on Kevin, his older sister, Brittney, and her fiancé, Tony, set

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 25, 2021
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‘Witch Trials’ – Starring Wrestling’s Tommy Dreamer & Justin Credible – Enters Post-Production

Writer-director Christopher M. Don‘s horror-thriller Witch Trials has now entered post-production and we have the first look to share with you. In the indie film, two documentary filmmakers and an ex-cop investigate the disappearance of a young girl that is rumored to have been abducted by a witch in the haunted woods of Connecticut. The Gear Up Productions Film stars Kimberly Don, Melanie Worsencroft Marshall, Megan Jennings, Lisabeth DeLucia, Greg Nutcher, Christopher Don, Robert Ferdinand, Robert Don, Michael Levinson, Monique Dupree, and Shawn C. Phillips. Featuring professional wrestling legends Tommy Dreamer and Justin Credible. Featuring special effects by Caite Basdeo, the release date for Witch Trials should be announced soon. In the meantime, take a look at the first images from the horror film.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 23, 2021
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‘Witches Of Balckwood’ Conjures A September Release Date

New Era has just announced the September release of Witches of Blackwood, the latest film starring Australian favorite Cassandra Magrath (Wolf Creek, Scare Campaign, The Dustwalker). Witches of Blackwood hails from Australian filmmaker Kate Whitbread (The Dustwalker, Life on Earth: Severance, Spirit of the Game, Surviving Georgia) and stars Cassandra Magrath (Wolf Creek, Scare Campaign, The Dustwalker,), John Voce (Penelope, Pimp, Crush), and Nicholas Denton (Spirit of the Game, Glitch). The film follows a young woman Claire (Magrath). Following the death of her mother, Claire returns to her hometown only to discover it is riddled with witchcraft. Everything is overshadowed by a mysterious darkness, steeped in rumors of a soul-stealing entity. As she seeks the truth behind her mother’s death, a confrontation with a coven of witches is the only way to survive. Witches of Blackwood will have a day-and-date DVD and Premium TVOD release on September 7, 2021. followed by a full digital release.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 23, 2021
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Mena Suvari And Danielle Harris Starring In Murder Thriller ‘Anne, With Love’

Mena Suvari (American Beauty, American Pie, “American Horror Story”) and Danielle Harris (the Halloween franchise, the Hatchet series, “The Conners”) have joined the cast and production team of the psychological thriller feature Anne, With Love starring Blaine Morris (“Skins”). George Henry Horton (Dreadspace) will direct from the script he co-wrote with Blaine Morris. Horton and Morris are producing under JesterLads and Giant Nugget Productions along with Suvari, Harris, and Matt Simonelli. Jaime Gallagher (Nightshade), Luke Barnett (Faith Based), Rocky Perez (“Gotham”), Anwar Wolf (“High Maintenance”), Leonard Amoia, Lucy Werner, Hunter Brown, and Robert H. Lambert (Burying Yasmeen) are among the supporting cast. The story centers on Anne (Morris), a painter who struggles with inner demons after being forced into a life of solitude when her husband leaves mysteriously. Suvari will play the role of her closest confidant Maya, who has a dark secret of her own. Harris will play Anne’s neighbor, who has several striking similarities in both her appearance

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 22, 2021
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Blu-ray Review: Invaders of the Lost Gold (1982)

Picture it; the Philippines, 1945… a Japanese platoon, with voices so outlandishly dubbed that they border on the insane (everyone in this film suffers the same fate), are waylaid by an indigenous tribe that really isn’t into the idea of someone fucking around on their land… and by “waylaid” I mean “absolutely slaughtered via gore drenched violence” (this shit even features samurai swords versus primitive knives… it’s fucking cool as shit… ). Some Thirty-odd years later, fortune hunter Rex Larson (Edmund Purdom) is hot on the trail of the gold those aforementioned soldiers hid before they met their drizzly demise, but he finds most of the remaining soldiers a little uncooperative (one of them commits hari-kari in an absurdly over-the-top manner accompanied by a gong strike… you can’t even make this shit up cats n’ creeps… ). Soon Rex is joined by a rag-tag team of misfits who’s ranks include TV mainstay/Murder She Wrote regular Stuart Whitman, Spartacus‘ Woody Strode

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DanXIII
Aug 21, 2021
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There’s A New Queen In The Trailer For ‘Royal Jelly’

The Fly meets Tremors in this ‘buzz worthy’ new indie ‘bee’ horror, Royal Jelly, that just might leave you with melissophobia! “When Aster, a reclusive high school bee enthusiast, is taken under the wing of a mysterious mentor named Tresa, everything Aster loves is shattered. Snatched away to Tresa’s remote, nightmarish apiary, Aster finds herself captive to Tresa’s grotesque plan – being groomed as a diseased hive’s next queen. Aster must find the strength within to exterminate Tresa and her godforsaken brood to survive.” Elizabeth McCoy, Sherry Lattanzi, and Fiona McQuinn star in the Sam Riley film Royal Jelly landing on Digital on September 14, 2021, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 20, 2021
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Horror Thriller ‘Hostage’ Set Free This August

Eddie Augustin makes his feature directorial debut with Hostage, starring Nicole Henderson, with the horror-thriller premiering on digital this month. In the film, Marek is down on his luck and looking for a house to rob. He picks one that is seemingly empty and breaks in through the window. To his surprise, he is attacked by an unknown assailant, Ashley, the daughter of the people that live in the house, is taken hostage by the entire family. Hostage” is my feature film, directorial debut. After directing several short films, I decided it was time to make my own feature. I partnered with my long-time collaborator, Laura Polisena to co-write and produce a compelling story that would focus on a convoluted character and the people that made her that way. We also wanted to tell a story in which the audience does not know who to side for because everyone has their own evil motive (of course some are worse than

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 19, 2021
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Terror Films Teams Up With Jungo TV For New Horror YouTube Channel

Terror Films, behind movies such as Blood Born, Freaky Friday, and more, have now announced that they have partnered with the US-based streaming media company, Jungo TV for a new YouTube channel. Jungo TV will create, launch, and manage an official ad-based YouTube channel for Terror Films. Jungo TV will also release all content under the Terror Films and sister label, Global Digital Releasing’s film libraries, across Jungo TV’s massive AVOD YouTube movie channel network. This includes the creation of subtitles and dubs to expand the releases directly to international audiences. Terror Films and Global Digital Releasing President Joe Dain spoke of the partnership, recently. He said: “I am thrilled about this new partnership and more importantly, this next phase in the continued growth of our distribution capabilities. We have seen an explosion in Ad based revenue in the last 2 years from platforms like Tubi TV and Roku and more recently, in our partnerships with YouTube AVOD channels such

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 19, 2021
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A Group Of Friends Face Off Against A Legendary Creature In ‘It Came From Below’ (Trailer)

Deep inside a dark cave lurks a horrifying creature in It Came From Below. We’ve got the trailer ahead of its release that shows a group of friends on a mission to uncover the truth. In the Dan Allen film, Jessie and her friends go deep underground to find out what happened to her father who claimed a monster lurks in the caves and has killed his friends. Wanting to uncover the truth, they will soon be hunted by a deadly creature from another world. Starring Megan Purvis, Tom Taplin, Jake Watkins, and Georgie Banks, It Came from Below surfaces on Digital September 7, 2021, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 17, 2021
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French Obsession Thriller ‘Who You Think I Am’ Opning In Theaters This September

Director Safy Nebbou‘s feature adaptation of Camille Laurens’ French indie thriller Who You Think I Am will open in theaters in both LA and New York next week. An Official Selection at the Berlin International Film Festival, Who You Think I Am “balances cunning and vulnerability in this romantic cyber-drama turned psychological thriller from writer-director Safy Nebbou. Ghosted by her hunky twenty-something lover, Claire (Binoche), a middle-aged professor and single mom, creates a fake Facebook profile to do a little undetected online snooping. But when her 24-year-old avatar “Clara” is friended by her ex’s equally attractive roommate (François Civil), superficial correspondence quickly escalates towards intense intimacy and uncontrollable obsession. Adapted from Camille Laurens’ best-selling novel—and co-scripted by Julie Peyr, a regular collaborator of Arnaud Desplechin—Who You Think I Am blends genres and bends reality to dizzying effect.” Who You Think I Am opens in theaters on September 3, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 17, 2021

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Dark Sky Films Unleashing ‘Night Drive’ & ‘Blood Conscious’ On DVD

Dark Sky Films is gearing to release two tales of terror on DVD this September, Night Drive and Blood Conscious. In Night Drive, “Russell (AJ Bowen – You’re Next, The Signal) is a driver in Los Angeles who’s reeling from a series of bad decisions. While his life seems to be caught in a downward spiral, a business proposition from an alluring but enigmatic passenger named Charlotte (Sophie Dalah – Unbroken, Dead Night) proves too good to turn down. A simple ride turns deadly, catapulting Russell into an even darker place, but Charlotte may be the key to a second chance he thought he’d never have… if he can make it through the night.” Bradford Baruh, the filmmaker that brought you John Dies at the End, directed Night Drive alongside Meghan Leon who penned the script. Blood Conscious, starring Nick Damici (“Hap and Leonard”, Dark Was the Night), centers on Kevin, his older sister, Brittney, and her fiancé, Tony, set

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 25, 2021
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‘Witch Trials’ – Starring Wrestling’s Tommy Dreamer & Justin Credible – Enters Post-Production

Writer-director Christopher M. Don‘s horror-thriller Witch Trials has now entered post-production and we have the first look to share with you. In the indie film, two documentary filmmakers and an ex-cop investigate the disappearance of a young girl that is rumored to have been abducted by a witch in the haunted woods of Connecticut. The Gear Up Productions Film stars Kimberly Don, Melanie Worsencroft Marshall, Megan Jennings, Lisabeth DeLucia, Greg Nutcher, Christopher Don, Robert Ferdinand, Robert Don, Michael Levinson, Monique Dupree, and Shawn C. Phillips. Featuring professional wrestling legends Tommy Dreamer and Justin Credible. Featuring special effects by Caite Basdeo, the release date for Witch Trials should be announced soon. In the meantime, take a look at the first images from the horror film.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 23, 2021
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‘Witches Of Balckwood’ Conjures A September Release Date

New Era has just announced the September release of Witches of Blackwood, the latest film starring Australian favorite Cassandra Magrath (Wolf Creek, Scare Campaign, The Dustwalker). Witches of Blackwood hails from Australian filmmaker Kate Whitbread (The Dustwalker, Life on Earth: Severance, Spirit of the Game, Surviving Georgia) and stars Cassandra Magrath (Wolf Creek, Scare Campaign, The Dustwalker,), John Voce (Penelope, Pimp, Crush), and Nicholas Denton (Spirit of the Game, Glitch). The film follows a young woman Claire (Magrath). Following the death of her mother, Claire returns to her hometown only to discover it is riddled with witchcraft. Everything is overshadowed by a mysterious darkness, steeped in rumors of a soul-stealing entity. As she seeks the truth behind her mother’s death, a confrontation with a coven of witches is the only way to survive. Witches of Blackwood will have a day-and-date DVD and Premium TVOD release on September 7, 2021. followed by a full digital release.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 23, 2021
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Mena Suvari And Danielle Harris Starring In Murder Thriller ‘Anne, With Love’

Mena Suvari (American Beauty, American Pie, “American Horror Story”) and Danielle Harris (the Halloween franchise, the Hatchet series, “The Conners”) have joined the cast and production team of the psychological thriller feature Anne, With Love starring Blaine Morris (“Skins”). George Henry Horton (Dreadspace) will direct from the script he co-wrote with Blaine Morris. Horton and Morris are producing under JesterLads and Giant Nugget Productions along with Suvari, Harris, and Matt Simonelli. Jaime Gallagher (Nightshade), Luke Barnett (Faith Based), Rocky Perez (“Gotham”), Anwar Wolf (“High Maintenance”), Leonard Amoia, Lucy Werner, Hunter Brown, and Robert H. Lambert (Burying Yasmeen) are among the supporting cast. The story centers on Anne (Morris), a painter who struggles with inner demons after being forced into a life of solitude when her husband leaves mysteriously. Suvari will play the role of her closest confidant Maya, who has a dark secret of her own. Harris will play Anne’s neighbor, who has several striking similarities in both her appearance

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 22, 2021
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Blu-ray Review: Invaders of the Lost Gold (1982)

Picture it; the Philippines, 1945… a Japanese platoon, with voices so outlandishly dubbed that they border on the insane (everyone in this film suffers the same fate), are waylaid by an indigenous tribe that really isn’t into the idea of someone fucking around on their land… and by “waylaid” I mean “absolutely slaughtered via gore drenched violence” (this shit even features samurai swords versus primitive knives… it’s fucking cool as shit… ). Some Thirty-odd years later, fortune hunter Rex Larson (Edmund Purdom) is hot on the trail of the gold those aforementioned soldiers hid before they met their drizzly demise, but he finds most of the remaining soldiers a little uncooperative (one of them commits hari-kari in an absurdly over-the-top manner accompanied by a gong strike… you can’t even make this shit up cats n’ creeps… ). Soon Rex is joined by a rag-tag team of misfits who’s ranks include TV mainstay/Murder She Wrote regular Stuart Whitman, Spartacus‘ Woody Strode

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Aug 21, 2021
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There’s A New Queen In The Trailer For ‘Royal Jelly’

The Fly meets Tremors in this ‘buzz worthy’ new indie ‘bee’ horror, Royal Jelly, that just might leave you with melissophobia! “When Aster, a reclusive high school bee enthusiast, is taken under the wing of a mysterious mentor named Tresa, everything Aster loves is shattered. Snatched away to Tresa’s remote, nightmarish apiary, Aster finds herself captive to Tresa’s grotesque plan – being groomed as a diseased hive’s next queen. Aster must find the strength within to exterminate Tresa and her godforsaken brood to survive.” Elizabeth McCoy, Sherry Lattanzi, and Fiona McQuinn star in the Sam Riley film Royal Jelly landing on Digital on September 14, 2021, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 20, 2021
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Horror Thriller ‘Hostage’ Set Free This August

Eddie Augustin makes his feature directorial debut with Hostage, starring Nicole Henderson, with the horror-thriller premiering on digital this month. In the film, Marek is down on his luck and looking for a house to rob. He picks one that is seemingly empty and breaks in through the window. To his surprise, he is attacked by an unknown assailant, Ashley, the daughter of the people that live in the house, is taken hostage by the entire family. Hostage” is my feature film, directorial debut. After directing several short films, I decided it was time to make my own feature. I partnered with my long-time collaborator, Laura Polisena to co-write and produce a compelling story that would focus on a convoluted character and the people that made her that way. We also wanted to tell a story in which the audience does not know who to side for because everyone has their own evil motive (of course some are worse than

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 19, 2021
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Terror Films Teams Up With Jungo TV For New Horror YouTube Channel

Terror Films, behind movies such as Blood Born, Freaky Friday, and more, have now announced that they have partnered with the US-based streaming media company, Jungo TV for a new YouTube channel. Jungo TV will create, launch, and manage an official ad-based YouTube channel for Terror Films. Jungo TV will also release all content under the Terror Films and sister label, Global Digital Releasing’s film libraries, across Jungo TV’s massive AVOD YouTube movie channel network. This includes the creation of subtitles and dubs to expand the releases directly to international audiences. Terror Films and Global Digital Releasing President Joe Dain spoke of the partnership, recently. He said: “I am thrilled about this new partnership and more importantly, this next phase in the continued growth of our distribution capabilities. We have seen an explosion in Ad based revenue in the last 2 years from platforms like Tubi TV and Roku and more recently, in our partnerships with YouTube AVOD channels such

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 19, 2021
Horror Fuel

A Group Of Friends Face Off Against A Legendary Creature In ‘It Came From Below’ (Trailer)

Deep inside a dark cave lurks a horrifying creature in It Came From Below. We’ve got the trailer ahead of its release that shows a group of friends on a mission to uncover the truth. In the Dan Allen film, Jessie and her friends go deep underground to find out what happened to her father who claimed a monster lurks in the caves and has killed his friends. Wanting to uncover the truth, they will soon be hunted by a deadly creature from another world. Starring Megan Purvis, Tom Taplin, Jake Watkins, and Georgie Banks, It Came from Below surfaces on Digital September 7, 2021, from Uncork’d Entertainment.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 17, 2021
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French Obsession Thriller ‘Who You Think I Am’ Opning In Theaters This September

Director Safy Nebbou‘s feature adaptation of Camille Laurens’ French indie thriller Who You Think I Am will open in theaters in both LA and New York next week. An Official Selection at the Berlin International Film Festival, Who You Think I Am “balances cunning and vulnerability in this romantic cyber-drama turned psychological thriller from writer-director Safy Nebbou. Ghosted by her hunky twenty-something lover, Claire (Binoche), a middle-aged professor and single mom, creates a fake Facebook profile to do a little undetected online snooping. But when her 24-year-old avatar “Clara” is friended by her ex’s equally attractive roommate (François Civil), superficial correspondence quickly escalates towards intense intimacy and uncontrollable obsession. Adapted from Camille Laurens’ best-selling novel—and co-scripted by Julie Peyr, a regular collaborator of Arnaud Desplechin—Who You Think I Am blends genres and bends reality to dizzying effect.” Who You Think I Am opens in theaters on September 3, 2021.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 17, 2021
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